Effective period / Period of releases: 2002

(b Reideburg, nr Halle, c1596; d Nykøbing, 22/3 Jan 1643). German composer, trumpeter, singer and poet. The earliest definite information about him is that he served Wallenstein as a trumpeter. By 1626 he was in Lübeck as a civic and military trumpeter and officially became a citizen there on 20 November in that year. After serving Crown Prince Christian of Denmark in both Nykøbing and Copenhagen,